Wed, 27 Oct 2004

Baloney, Bradford!

Green MP, Sue Bradford, commenting on an OECD report recommending a cut to the DPB rate, said today, "The OECD report is a disgrace. There’s no evidence at all that solo parents lack the will to find work.”

Lindsay Mitchell, petitioner for a Parliamentary review of the DPB responded to Bradford, "The evidence is under your nose. Right now, there are around 37,000 sole parents with school age children only, who still rely totally on the DPB for their income."

"How hard can it be getting these parents into a part-time job? Why don't you show us the evidence that these people DO want a job?"

"According to the International Labour Organization New Zealanders are working longer hours than almost any other developed nation. Is it any wonder, when huge sections of the population don't want to pull their weight."

"Sue Bradford should stop being an apologist for unemployed single parents and start worrying about the example they are setting for their children."

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>